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THE AiNNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. U. AUGUST i;)21. 



XIV. — On Twelve new Species 0/ Curculionidse/ro/n South 

 Africa. By Guy A. K. Marshall, D.Sc, C.M.G. 



The types of the new species described below are either 

 contained in or will be presented to the British Museum. 



Subfamily Otiobrsynciiinm. 



Eremnus maculosus, sp. n. 



S . Integument black, thinly clothed with grey scaling 

 above, which on the elytra forms numerous irregular denser 

 spots ; the lower surface more closely and evenly covered 

 with similar scaling. 



Head with close confluent punctation, forming longi- 

 tudinal striolse on the forehead and concentric rings on the 

 vertex ; the forehead somewhat flattened, broad, its width 

 being about twice as great as the length of an eye, and with 

 a deep median fovea. Rostrum very broad, hardly longer 

 than its basal widtli, slightly narrowed for a short distance 

 from the base and thence almost parallel-sided ; the dorsal 

 area broad and also nearly parallel-sided, almost flat, but 

 slightly higher at the sides, with coarse confluent puncta- 

 tion and a median furrow, which is shallow at the base and 

 deeper in front ; the apical area shallowly impressed and 

 with a low median carina, the epistome dull and coriaceous, 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. viii. 10 



